Tag Archives: PHP

The number one remark I heard when I launched WPupdatePHP, is that users shouldn’t be bothered with this. In an ideal world, this is true, but in reality this isn’t going to stand for long. Allow me to explain why: The core WordPress team can’t get every single hosting company to comply. I admire their intentions, but in reality […]

WordPress has PHP 5.2 as the minimum required PHP version. For a while now, PHP 5.4 has been listed as the recommended version. That’s a big step in the right direction, but I feel we can do more to help push the requirements forward. At Radish Concepts we work with a lot of different platforms, […]

Tim Nash has published his predictions for the next year. The entire piece is worth a read, since I think Tim’s predictions are not far off, but the Bumping up PHP 5.2 part obviously sparked my interest: […] should we be aiding hosting companies, in supporting out of date potential security black holes. It’s clear that […]

I think it’s time to start requiring PHP 5.4 in WordPress plugins. Even though WordPress still requires only PHP 5.2, I think it’s silly to keep telling people to run their websites on software that is no longer maintained for over four years now. With plugins though, we can make up these requirements by ourselves, […]

I see this question over and over again. With the amount of PHP frameworks being available, it’s not hard to imagine how confused a learning PHP developer must feel when they try to pick the right framework. While in reality, it doesn’t really matter what PHP framework you choose. Laravel, Symfony, Zend, all are really […]

I’m not a sysadmin by any means, but I like to think that I know how to setup a little server environment. Having used Vagrant for a long time now helps, it definitely lowered the bar of getting into it. One thing that has puzzled me for quite some time, is so silly that I […]

The internet is filled with articles about how bad PHP is. Try a quick Google search for “PHP sucks” and you find about 83 million results. Doing the same search for other languages still gives you millions of results, but PHP really stands out in these numbers. Although I agree that PHP probably is not […]